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Adam Bien (blog.adam-bien.com) is consultant, author, (JavaONE) Speaker, Expert Group Member of the Java EE 6, EJB 3.1 and JPA 2.0 JSRs, Netbeans Dream Team Member and Java Champion. Adam has been working with Java and J2EE from the beginning (JDK 1.0 and Servlets/EJB 1.0) in different large scale projects. He has edited several books about Java and J2EE technology ("J2EE Patterns", "J2EE HotSpots", "Enterprise Java Frameworks","Struts", "SOA Expert Knowledge" , "Java EE 5 Patterns" and "Enterprise Architekturen"). Now he is involved as architect and developer in Java EE 5 projects and participates in several opensource projects as committer and owner. He is working on his new o'reilly book "Productive Java EE - Rethinking the Best Practices
Adam Warski graduated with honours from the University of Warsaw, receiving a Master's Degree in Computer Science. From 2005 Adam is a software engineer at JBoss, now part of Red Hat. There, he has been involved in various projects, like Shotoku, JBoss Labs, JBoss.ORG feeds system, and recently created the Envers project. Adam is interested in Java SE and EE technologies, as well as specification techniques and new programming languages, especially with functional elements, like Scala. When not working, he enjoy's hiking in the mountains (summer), skiing (winter), playing tennis and reading books.
Alef Arendsen is one of SpringSource's Principal Consultants, and has overall responsibility for SpringSource service delivery in continental Europe.
Alex Buckley is Computational Theologist at Sun Microsystems, responsible for the Java Language Specification and the Java VM Specification. He is currently spec lead for JSRs on modularity and annotations planned for Java SE 7. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Imperial College London.
CTO of OW2. Alexandre Lefebvre is an R&D team leader at Orange Labs R&D, doing academic research in autonomic computing and development work in the area of middleware and software engineering. He is also the CTO of the OW2 Consortium.
Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine is a GlassFish evangelist. He has 10 years of customer-facing java experience and is now the two-way link between the core GlassFish developers and the broader community which involves presenting in various conferences around the world. Alexis is an editor of "The Aquarium" blog and a reviewer and translator of various Java and XML books. Alexis lives in Paris, France.
Alois Reitbauer works as a Sr. Performance Architect for dynaTrace Software. In his role as a member of the R&D department he influences the dynaTrace product strategy and works closely with key customers in implementing performance management solution for the entire application lifecylce. Alois Reitbauer has 10 years experience as architect and developer in the Java and .NET space.
SOA/BI lead architect - Sun Microsystems. Andreas Egloff is the lead architect for SOA/BI at Sun Microsystems. His charter includes the Open ESB community as well as the Java CAPS product. Andreas joined Sun through the SeeBeyond acquistion and focuses on making SOA and business integration technology more approachable to a wider audience. He has been architecting, designing and developing OO and SOA based solutions for 13 years. Before joining Sun he worked as a consultant in Europe and the US for companies including CSC Consulting and UBS.
I have 14 years experience in IT in the UK and Malta, in architecting & developing information management and integration solutions in finance, telephony, marketing, manufacturing and education in the private and public sectors. I currently work within a dynamic team that authors, schedules and runs training for Mule around the globe. We also provide consultancy for Mule and integration projects and I have assisted our customers across Europe, Australia and USA. More recently, I authored a book on Mule -Mule 2: Developer's Guide to ESB and Integration Platform - which will hit the bookshelves in November
Ari Zilka founded Terracotta in 2003, where he currently serves as the infrastructure software company's CTO. There he's been working to refine the software that makes it easy to scale a Java application to as many computers as needed, without the usual custom application code and databases used to share data in a cluster. Prior to Terracotta, Ari was the Chief Architect at Walmart.com, where he led the innovation and development of the company's new engineering initiatives. While there, he built and led a team of core engineers focused on performance management, and operations cost-saving measures. Outside of Walmant.com, Ari's work in software development and consulting has had him working with Gap.com, Nike.com, Harrod's of London, Siemen's, Intel, Compaq, and Barnes & Noble among others.
Arjen Poutsma is a senior software engineer at SpringSource with fifteen years' experience in commercial software environments. During this time he has worked with both Java EE and Microsoft .NET. Three years ago, Arjen started to specialize in Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures. During this period, he has worked for some of the largest organizations in the world helping them better understand enterprise Java and how SOAs fit into their organizations. In part from his experiences with these organizations, Arjen founded the open source Spring Web Services project and continues to lead the technical direction and development as the project lead for Spring Web Services. This project aims at facilitating development of document-driven web services. Currently, Arjen is working on the REST support for Spring 3.
Arjé Cahn is CTO of Hippo (Amsterdam, San Francisco). Arjé runs the Hippo open source team at www.onehippo.org. He has earned his merits in the open source world at the Apache Software Foundation, where he's both a committer on Apache Cocoon and a Member of the foundation. He's also a regular speaker on the subjects of content management, open source and XML. Read his blog at blogs.hippo.nl/arje/
Ben Chelf, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder: Before he co-founded Coverity, Ben was a founding member of the Stanford Computer Science Laboratory team that architected and developed Coverity's underlying technology. He is one of the world's leading experts on the commercial use of static source code analysis. In his role at Coverity, Ben works with organizations such as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Cisco, Symantec, and IBM to improve the security and quality of software globally. He holds an M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University. Ben frequently provides expert insight into software security and quality to the press, public audiences, and in published writings.
Bill Hines is a Consulting I/T Specialist with IBM's Software Services for WebSphere organization in the Software Division, working as a mobile consultant out of Hershey, PA (Chocolatetown, USA). He has several years of DataPower experience in both customer engagements and developing and delivering internal DataPower training to IBM's consulting, engineering, support, QA, and technical sales teams. He also has WebSphere Application Server experience dating back to 1998 and across all versions from 2.x to 6.x in areas of specialty including installation, configuration, tuning, dynacache, security, troubleshooting, and design/architecture of enterprise J2EE applications using WebSphere family development tools. He is a co-author of the highly acclaimed IBM Press books IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance Handbook and IBM WebSphere: Deployment and Advanced Configuration,as well as several articles published in WebSphere Technical Journal and developerWorks(rm), and his background includes more than twenty years of information technology experience in many platforms and languages.
Bill Venners is president of Artima Software, Inc. and editor-in- chief of Artima Developer. He is author of the book, Inside the Java Virtual Machine, a programmer-oriented survey of the Java platforms architecture and internals. His popular columns in JavaWorld magazine covered Java internals, object-oriented design, and Jini. Bill has been active in the Jini Community since its inception. He led the Jini Community ServiceUI project, whose ServiceUI API became the de facto standard way to associate user interfaces to Jini services.
Bogdan is Lead Architect at Nuxeo, a leading open source ECM vendor. He is the Team Leader on the Apogee Project and the WebEngine Project
Brian Goetz has been a professional software developer for more than twenty years. Brian is the author of the very successful 'Java Concurrency in Practice', and has written over 75 articles on Java development. He is one of the primary members of the Java Community Process JSR 166 Expert Group (Concurrency Utilities), and has served on numerous other JCP Expert Groups. Brian is a Sr. Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems.
Brian Leonard is a Technology Evangelist for Sun Microsystems. Brian has over 18 years of software development experience evolving from the terminal, to the desktop, to the web (and back to the desktop). In his current role, Brian works to create and foster the community around OpenSolaris, the open source distribution of Solaris from Sun Microsystems. Brian has spent the majority of his career working as a Java application developer and deployer, and he now gets to showcase why features like ZFS and DTrace make OpenSolaris the ideal operating system for these roles.
Bruce Snyder is a 10-year veteran of enterprise software development and a recognized leader in open source software. Bruce has experience in a wide range of technologies including Java EE, Service Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Service Buses. In addition to his role as an Architect for LogicBlaze, Bruce is also a founding member of Apache Geronimo and a developer for Apache ActiveMQ, Apache ServiceMix, Apache Ode and Castor among other things. Bruce also serves as a member of the JCP expert group for JSR-221 (JDBC 4.0), JSR-243 (Java Data Objects 2.0) and JSR-291 (Dynamic Component Support for Java). In addition, Bruce is also the co-author of Professional Apache Geronimo for Wrox Press and is a speaker at industry conferences including TheServerSide Java Symposium, Java in Action, JavaOne, ApacheCon, JAOO, SOA Web Services Edge, No Fluff Just Stuff and various Java Users Groups.
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Charles Nutter has been a Java developer since 1996, recently working as the senior Java architect at Ventera Corp and in September moved to Sun to work full-time on JRuby! He led the open-source LiteStep project in the late 90s and came to Ruby in the fall of 2004. Since then he has been a member of the JRuby team, helping to make it a true alternative Ruby platform. Charles presented JRuby at RubyConf 2005 and co-presented at JavaOne 2006 with Thomas Enebo. He hopes to co-write a JRuby book this fall with Thomas to follow up a planned JRuby 1.0 release. Charles currently works on a Ventera contract for the USDAs Food and Nutrition Service at their office in Minneapolis.
Chery Sylvain is a French Engineer (Mechanical engineering and production systems) and has a master degree in Information Systems and Technology Management, HEC-Ecole des Mines de Paris, France. He is co-founder of Agile Partner (2004) and Software development Project Manager. Chery promotes and coaches agile software development and agile project management methodology and is also member of Agile Alliance, PMI, Agile Interest Group in Luxembourg.
Chet Haase is a senior computer scientist on the Flex SDK team at Adobe, focusing on graphics issues and features. In a former life, he worked for Sun Microsystems as a client architect in the Desktop Java group, working with client technologies such as Java 2D, Swing, AWT, and deployment. He is coauthor with Romain Guy of the book Filthy Rich Clients: Developing Animated and Graphical Effects for Desktop Java Applications. He and Guy are presenting a session on filthy rich clients, beyond Java.
Christina Lau is a Distinguished Engineer and leads the BPM Architecture and Advanced Technology Team in WebSphere, focusing on future BPM technologies and consumability improvements in the IBM BPM offerings. Prior to this role, Christina was an architect on the SWG On Demand Development team and led various On Demand incubation projects. Christina is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and a core member of the SWG Architecture Board.
Dalibor Topic lives and works in Hamburg, Germany, as Sun's Java F/OSS Ambassador. In collaboration with the OpenJDK community and GNU/Linux distributions, he is occupied accelerating the evolution of Open Source software stacks based on Java technology and GNU/Linux.
Dan Allen is a passionate Java EE software developer, consultant, and author of Seam in Action with over eight years of development experience using technologies that include Java frameworks (Seam, JSF, EJB3, Hibernate, Spring, Struts), testing frameworks (JUnit, TestNG), JavaScript and DOM scripting, CSS and page layouts, Maven 2, Ant, Groovy, and many others.
Danny Coward is Sun Microsystems' Chief Architect, Sun's Client Software. He is responsible for the technical direction of the Java platform for the desktop (Java SE) and the Java platform as it is expressed on billions of mobile and embedded devices such as mobile phones (Java ME). In addition, Danny leads the technical direction for Java FX – the next generation rich immersive user experience for all screens. Danny is one of the most popular bloggers at Sun Microsystems.
An information technology professional since 1977, Dave Nicolette has served in a variety of roles since 1977 and has been involved with agile methods since 2002. Presently, his main interests are the application of agile methods and lean thinking to enterprise IT and collaboration with enthusiastic professionals who want to improve the state of the art in the IT industry. He's currently employed by Valtech Technologies, a consultancy that offers opportunities for him to help others succeed with agile.
Denis Caromel is founder and scientific adviser to ActiveEon. Denis is also full professor at University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis and CNRS-INRIA. His research interests include parallel, concurrent, and distributed object-oriented programming. Denis Caromel gave many invited talks on Object, Parallel and Distributed Computing around the world (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Berkeley, Stanford, ISI, USC, Electrotechnical Laboratory Tsukuba, Sydney, Oracle-BEA EMEA, Digital System Research Center in Palo Alto, NASA Langley, IBM Tom Watson and Zurich). He acted as keynote speaker at several major conferences (MDM, etc.)
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Didier Girard is CTO of SFEIR a consulting company based in Paris. He is also a member of the Open Source Get Together Paris. He built, abut.cnam.fr, a community web site on literature in 1994. He started building server side java applications in 1997. Didier has bloged on J2EE at application-servers.com since 2000 and on GWT at onGWT.com since GWT was open sourced. He is an early adopter who is constantly looking for good technologies for SFEIR's clients. He is currently working on several projects using GWT as the GUI technology.
Dmitry is a software architect in Latvian outsourcing company C.T.Co, which is working in banking and insurance industry. His day-to-day responsibilities include emerging technology evaluation, prototyping, new project start-ups and application quality reviews. Dmitry is specializing in Web applications and the last two years were dedicated to development of GWT and ZK based projects. Dmitry has a Master's degree in Compuer Science from Riga Technical University and is currently working on PhD thesis.
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Doug Tidwell is a Senior Software Engineer in IBM's Emerging Technology group. He was a speaker at the first XML conference in 1997, and has been working with markup languages, Web services and SOA technologies for many years. His job as a technology evangelist is to explain the standards and technologies behind Web 2.0 and to help customers integrate them into their overall business architectures and strategies. He is the author of many articles on IBM's developerWorks site (ibm.com/developerWorks), and is the author of O'Reilly's book on XSLT, the second edition of which is now available.
Emil Ong is the Chief Evangelist and a lead developer of Caucho Technology. He comes from an academic research background, having studied security, systems, and peer-to-peer technology to gain his M.S. in Computer Science at UC Berkeley. When Emil joined Caucho in 2006, he began by working on Quercus, Caucho's 100% Java implementation of PHP, and the SOA offerings in Resin, Caucho's screamingly fast Java application server. In 2007, Emil became the Chief Evangelist of Caucho, adding public speaking engagements, community management, and press relations to his engineering duties. Emil is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Florent Guillaume is Director of R&D at Nuxeo, leader in Open Source Enterprise Content Management. Florent follows closely all Java technologies to pick the best and apply them to the architecture of our Nuxeo ECM framework. Florent previously designed Nuxeo CPS, the renowned Zope-based ECM.
I'm a senior software architect, co-founder and CEO of Adequate Systems, a company specialized in online applications for public and press relation agencies. I'm also the founder of Granite Data Services (late 2006) and I've been its main (and almost only) developer in 2007, while many other people have joined and contributed to GDS in 2008. GDS is intented from the beginning to be the RIA technological foundation of our next Flex-based software services.
Frank Cohen is the leading authority for testing and optimizing software developed with Web, SOA, AJAX, and REST designs and implementations. Frank Cohen is CEO and Founder of PushToTest and inventor of TestMaker, the open-source test automation tool. He is author of several books on optimizing information systems, and is an experienced instructor in areas relating to testing Web applications, SOA, REST, and AJAX.
Frank Nimphius is a Principal Product Manager for application development tools at Oracle Corporation since 1999. Frank actively contributes to the development of Oracle JDeveloper and the Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) with a special focus put on web application development with JavaServer Faces and Ajax. Frank represents the Oracle JEE development team at JEE conferences world wide, including various Oracle user groups and the Oracle Open World conference. In addition to his contribution of writing magazine articles and how-to documentation for Oracle, Frank maintains a technical blog at thepeninsulasedge.com/frank_nimphius/
Chairman of the OW2 Technology Council. Gaël Blondelle is CTO and co-founder of EBM WebSourcing. Gaël is also Chairman of the OW2 Technology Council where he leads the definition of the OW2 technical vision. Gaël is the founder of PETALS, the open source JBI compliant ESB by OW2.
With almost two decades of technology engineering successes, Gil guides Azul Systems architectural vision and product design to align with business and market opportunity strategies. Prior to co-founding Azul Systems, Gil was Director of Technology at Nortel Networks, having joined Nortel through the acquisition of Shasta Networks. Gil architected Shasta's Broadband IP Services Platform and Service Creation System. Before joining Nortel, Gil was Director of Technology at Check Point Software Technologies where he delivered several industry-leading traffic management solutions, including the industry's first Firewall-1 based security appliance in partnership with Nokia. Prior to Check Point, Gil held numerous management and design engineering positions at industry-leading companies including Stratus and Qualix Communications.
Giovanni Asproni is a free-lance contractor and consultant working in the UK. His interests cover the full software life-cycle (including both the technical side, and the project management one. He is an expert both in agile project management techniques and in more traditional ones) he is a certified scrum master and also a certified PRINCE 2 practitioner. He is a frequent conference speaker. Finally, he is a past chair of the London XPDay conference and the chair of the ACCU conference
Guillaume Laforge is the Groovy Project Manager, and Spec Lead of JSR-241, the Java Specification Request standardizing the Groovy dynamic language in the Java Community Process. As Vice President Technology of G2One, the company dedicated to the development of Groovy and Grails, he provides professional services around those technologies (training, support, and consulting). Guillaume co-authored the Groovy in Action best-seller book for Manning, and reviewed and wrote forewords for most of the Groovy and Grails books on the market. You can meet him at conferences around the world where he evangelizes the Groovy dynamic language, and the agile Grails web framework.
Market Director U&P WW. Manager Design and Customization. Security & Monitoring Division. Barco N.V.
Holly is a performance tooling developer within the IBM Java Technology Centre. She leads development on IBM Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools for Java™ - Health Center and was the author of the GC and Memory Visualizer tool. Her tooling work builds on her experience working as a performance engineer within the garbage collection development team. Holly has been with IBM for seven years. Before joining IBM, she completed a doctorate in quantum computation at the University of Oxford. She has spoken at a variety of industry events including JavaZone, The ServerSide Java Symposium, The Great Indian Developer Summit, and WebSphere User Groups.
Ilya Sergey is a software developer at JetBraint Inc. His research interests include programming languages design, optimizing compilers, type systems and multiparadigm programming, both their theoretical and applied aspects. Last two years he concerned to development of JVM-based languages support in IntelliJ IDEA, namely Groovy and Scala. Ilya received his Masters Degree cum laude in Mathematics and Computer Science at Saint-Petersburg State University and now continue his research in the domain of Type Systems at DistriNet research group on the base of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Scala plugin for IntelliJ IDEA is almost fully implemented on Scala programming language itself. In his speech Ilya will describe some problems and their solutions related to implementation of code analysis, cross-compilation and interaction between Java and Scala parts of big project. Various cross-language development features, such as refactorings and navigation, will be demonstrated.
Iran Hutchinson currently serves as Product Manager at InterSystems with a focus on driving global product strategy and development on the Java Platform. Prior to joining InterSystems, Iran held lead roles in enterprise architecture and development in companies such as IBM, where he led the development strategy for enterprise integration and evolution of global projects using: JavaEE5, Distributed Computing, CICS, Flex, SOA and Web Services. He focuses on understanding diverse architectures and technologies to lead the way to next-generation solutions surrounding high performance computing, distributed computing and complex data interactions. He thinks the open sourcing of standards and technologies, such as Java, in concert with other best-of-breed tooling will yield a bright future. Recently, Iran has taken a more active role is in presenting and debating technology in the hopes of learning and spurring innovative solutions. You can find him presenting at various events around the world and on the upcoming blog + technology series at InterSystems.com.
Dr. Ivar Jacobson is a father of components and component architecture, use cases, aspect-oriented software development, the Unified Modelling Language and the Rational Unified Process. He is the principal author of six influential and best-selling books. Ivar Jacobson is the chairman of Ivar Jacobson International which has subsidiaries in the US, UK, Korea, China, Singapore, Australia, Norway and Sweden.
Jack Verstappen has a 20 years experience in the IT industry, of which the last 10 years with Rational products. He has practical experience with large software improvement programs, related to CMMI and other industry acknowledged frameworks. He is specialized in process management and requirements engineering and has a broad expertise in software engineering.
James Ward is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe and Adobe's JCP representative to JSR 286, 299, and 301. Much like his love for climbing mountains he enjoys programming because it provides endless new discoveries, elegant workarounds, summits and valleys. His adventures in climbing have taken him many places. Likewise, technology has brought him many adventures, including: Pascal and Assembly back in the early 90's; Perl, HTML, and JavaScript in the mid 90's; then Java and many of it's frameworks beginning in the late 90's. Today he primarily uses Flex to build beautiful front-ends for Java based back-ends. Prior to Adobe, James built a rich marketing and customer service portal for Pillar Data Systems.
Jan Machacek graduated in Computer Science from the University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic and joined UK-based Cake Solutions in September 2002. Prior to this, Jan worked as a network administrator and programmer in Prague and has much experience in Internet and installation technologies. Jan's role as Lead Developer at Cake Solutions sees him at the centre of all implementation-level details in all projects. In particular, Jan is often called upon to work on some of the most complex and challenging aspects of a system. Since joining Cake, Jan has proven his expertise in both Java and Microsoft .NET not only by taking on a wide variety of highly complex projects but also through his collection of published works covering both topics. He's the co-author of Pro Spring 2.5
Jan Van de Poel is an IT Specialist with IBM Software Group primarily working with the Jazz Platform and Rational Team Concert. He holds a Masters degree in both Economics and Computer Science and joined IBM after participating in the Extreme Blue Program in 2007.
Jason is the founder of the Apache Maven project, the Plexus IoC framework, and the Apache Velocity project. Jason currently serves on the Apache Maven Project Management Committee. He has been involved with the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) for seven years, helped to found Codehaus, a well respected incubation facility for open source community projects, and is a frequent speaker at many major software conferences, including JavaOne, EclipseCon, EmergingTech, and ApacheCon.
Currently working as a engineer at Sun Microsystems on the Java Swing Team. There where I am working on JTable, Synth, Nimbus Look & Feel and various Java One talks. Prior to working at Sun I was working on a Java photo management application called Imagery for my own company Xerto. Imagery is a powerful piece of software for helping professionals manage large digital image collections. Built in Java with support for huge collections of hundreds of thousands of images and P2P server-less replicated collaboration.
Jean-Francois Arcand works for Sun Microsystems. He currently leads project Grizzly, an extended NIO based framework used in multiples products. He also works on Web 2.0 topics like Ajax performance and leads the Comet activities at Sun. Jean-Francois lives and works from home in Prevost, a very small city in Québec where life is perfect.
After starting his career as a Java developer, Jef soon evolved into a successful project manager. He has always been valuing people and communication, focusing on efficient team collaboration to deliver high quality results. And that's why he was immedediately hooked on Scrum and agile processes when he started using them several years ago.Jef has been applying Scrum ever since and knows how to leverage the simplicity and effectiveness that this framework offers to software development. Currently, Jef is a certified Scrum Practitioner & Master coaching teams and organizations in adopting Scrum and agile best practices. He is also co-founder of iLean, a partner of the Xplore group in providing agile services.
Jérôme Grandbastien is software IT Specialist for IBM, he has 5 years experience mainly in development and also testing solution. He holds a Masters degree in computer science and he is now member of the IBM testing community of practice.
Jevgeni has been the R&D lead of the largest custom software development company in the Baltics (Webmedia, Ltd) for the last five years. During that time he has spearheaded the movement to decrease the development turnaround time. As a result two products (JavaRebel and JspWeaver) were developed under the trademark ZeroTurnaround, of which Jevgeni is the technical lead. Both projects contributed directly to the immense reduction in turnaround time. Jevgeni is also a co-founder of the open source projects Aranea and Squill and has spoken on many international conferences including JavaZone, JavaPolis, JAOO and TheServerSide Symposium. Jevgeni's personal blog can be found at dow.ngra.de.
Jim Baker has over 15 years of professional software development experience, focusing on business intelligence, enterprise system management, and high-performance web applications. Jim is a committer on Jython and also leads the Front Range Pythoneers, a merry band of Python enthusiasts in Boulder, Colorado. Jim graduated from Harvard College, A.B., Computer Science magna cum laude and Brown University, Sc.M., Computer Science (and an all-but-dissertation PhD candidate).
Joe Walker is lead developer of the DWR framework, and Director of Support and Development at Sitepen UK. He is a frequent speaker at industry events and is author of Ajax in Practice by Manning.
Joe's passion is for Desktop Java - the stuff that runs on the glass and the users sess, touches and works with. He is the Desktop Java Editor for the Java Developer's Journal and has spoken at numerous conferences on topics around client side Java and related technologies. His day job is a developer for IBM in the UK; he is IBM's expert group representative on JSR 273 "Design time API for JavaBeans" and was on the expert group for JSR 75 "Long term persistence of JavaBeans. He is a comitter and project lead of the Visual Editor project for the Eclipse Foundation; a framework for Java GUI builders on the Eclipse platform". Joe is a proponant of the Java Desktop and was recognized as a JavaDesktop Community Star at JavaOne 2006.
John Davies is a veteran speaker on global-scale enterprise architectures and high performance computing. John has nearly 30 years in IT from hardware through assembler, C, C++ to Java. Working mostly in investment banking, John has held several global architecture roles in the world's largest banks. John was CTO and co-founder of C24, a company specializing in complex integration (SWIFT, FpML, ISO-20022 etc.). C24 was recently sold to IONA, where John was their Technical Director and Head of Research. John is currently CTO and co-founder of Incept5
John is a freelance consultant specializing in Enterprise Java, Web Development, and Open Source technologies, currently based in Wellington, New Zealand. Well known in the Java community for his many published articles, John helps organizations to optimize their Java development processes and infrastructures and provides training and mentoring in open source technologies, SDLC tools, and agile development processes. John is principal consultant at Wakaleo Consulting, a company that provides consulting, training and mentoring services in Enterprise Java and Agile Development. John is the author of Java Power Tools
John Fallows, co-founder and CTO of Kaazing, is a pioneer in the field of rich and highly interactive user interfaces. In his role as chief technology officer, John defines the architecture of the Kaazing product suite and oversees all its development. Prior to co-founding Kaazing, John was a Consulting Member of Technical Staff for Server Technologies at Oracle Corporation. During his last 5 years at Oracle, John focused on designing, developing, and evolving Oracle ADF Faces to fully integrate Ajax technologies. He is co-author of the best-selling book, "Pro JSF and Ajax: Building Rich Internet Components," (Apress).
Jonas Jacobi, co-founder and CEO of Kaazing, is an entrepreneur and visionary with a mission to simplify Web application development and deployment. Prior to co-founding Kaazing, he worked for Oracle for eight years as a Java EE evangelist and product manager responsible for the product management of JavaServer Faces, Oracle ADF Faces, and Oracle ADF Faces Rich Client in the Oracle JDeveloper team. As co-founder and CEO of Kaazing, Jonas oversees all aspects of Kaazing's operations and mission to become a leader in Web infrastructure. He is co-author of the best-selling book, "Pro JSF and Ajax: Building Rich Internet Components," (Apress).
Joris De Veirman is a senior software engineer at Ebit, focusing on large scale service oriented systems and high resolution rendering techniques. He is involved in projects requiring 24/7 monitoring solutions, going from real time data acquisition up to data visualization, using: Java SE6, Java EE, Spring Framework, AspectJ, Cluster4spring, Terracotta, Batik, Jogl, etc. Another aspect is his devotion to distributed application architecture, network- and security engineering.
Joris De Winne is a Technical Analyst / Project Leader at RealDolmen and co-founder of the JBoss User Group Belgium. He's constantly working with leading edge technologies like JPA 1.0, EJB 3.0, Seam 2.1.0 and BIRT 2.3.1. During the past year he gained a lot of experience in testing applications that will be used under heavy load by using monitoring and stress testing tools.
Joris Kuipers is a Senior Consultant for Interface21 in The Netherlands. Starting out in 1999 as one of the core members of a Research & Development team, he investigated amongst other things the IBM SanFrancisco framework (a J2EE predecessor) and the use of various XML-related technologies. Joris specialized in J2EE technology and became the Java Technical Consultant for the Dutch Central Bank in 2003. In this role, he was responsible for all development technologies and processes used in the Java department. He streamlined the software configuration management process by introducing automated builds and continuous integration, migrated system development from a traditional EJB-based environment to a modern, light-weight stack based on Spring and Hibernate and supported developers in their day-to-day work as the local Java guru.
Joshua Bloch is a Principal Engineer at Google. He was previously a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems and a Senior Systems Designer at Transarc. He led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features, including the JDK 5.0 language enhancements and the Java Collections Framework. He is the author of the Jolt Award-winning book Effective Java. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University and a B.S. in Computer Science from Columbia.
Joshua Marinacci first tried Java in 1995 at the request of his favorite TA and never looked back. He has spent the last ten years writing Java user interfaces for wireless, web, and desktop platforms. After tiring of web programming with several large companies in the Atlanta area he joined Sun to work on Java user interfaces full-time, first on the Swing team, then NetBeans, and now on the JavaFX tools team. Joshua recently co-authored O'Reilly's Swing Hacks with Chris Adamson. He also contributes to SwingLabs and writes regularly for Java.net. Joshua holds a BS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and recently moved to Eugene, Oregon to be with his new wife.
Karel Maes started his career as a Java Developer at RealDolmen (formerly Dolmen) in 2001 and moved on to becoming a Project Manager and Functional Analyst. Since 2007, he cooperates closely with the ICT Management of IDEWE on a 5 year strategic program and is responsible for the coordination of several of these projects. In addition, he also works as a methodologist at RealDolmen where he helps defining pragmatic ways to manage Scrum projects and making functional designs for SOA environments.
Always passionate about technology, Katrien has been active with the Internet technologies for over 12 years. Starting out teaching technical Microsoft curricula at large enterprises, she then worked at a large Belgian agency for 7 years where she evolved from developer to team lead and supervisor. Joining Microsoft in 2007, Katrien is Developer and Platform Evangelist for Belgium and Luxemburg. You can reach Katrien at katriend@microsoft.com
Kirk Pepperdine is the Chief Technical Officer at Kodewerk Ltd. and has been focused on Object technologies and performance tuning for the last 15 years. Kirk is a co-author of the book ANT Developers Handbook and editor at The Server Side.
Kris Verlaenen is one of the core developers of the Drools rules engine at JBoss. He joined the Drools team early this year, after finishing his PhD in Computer Science on "policy-driven middleware" at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. He has been contributing to the Drools project for over 2 years now and is the Drools Flow and Drools Eclipse lead.
Linda Schneider is the Technical Lead for OpenMQ. She has been working in messaging since 1999 when development of the product (originally known as Java Message Queue) began, and has been developing in Java for the last 12 years. In the past 18 years , she has also worked in a variety of other technology areas including web server development, graphical user interface programming and real-time simulators.
Mahmood Ali is a Master student at MIT. His primary focus is pluggable type systems and type inference.
Marc Portier is co-founder and managing partner of Outerthought, a Belgian software company on the crossroads and the forefront of open source and Java-based internet development. Marc has been professionally involved with Java since the early days, using it as the code and framework for all aspects of the web-application experience.
Dr. Mark Little is Red Hat Director of Standards and Technical Development Manager for the JBoss SOA Platform. Before joining JBoss/Red Hat, Mark was Chief Architect and Director at Arjuna Technologies, a spin-off from Hewlett-Packard specializing in reliable middleware. Prior to Arjuna, he was Distinguished Engineer at Hewlett-Packard, where he led the transactions team. Mark has published numerous books and articles and spoken at conferences and workshops for nearly 20 years.
Mark Proctor received his Beng in Engineer Science and Technology and then his Msc in Business and Information Systems; both from Brunel University, West London. His Msc thesis was in the field of Genetic Algorithms; which is where he first got his interest for anything AI related. Mark became involved in the Drools expert system project at an early stage and soon became its project lead. Mark then joined JBoss (later acquired by Red Hat) as an employee when the Drools project was federated into the JBoss JEMS stack. Having developed a powerful expert system, Mark is now turning his attention to other declarative paradigms in an effort to unify them to allow for richer domain modelling environments.
Mark Reinhold is a Principal Engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he works on the Java Platform, Standard Edition, and the OpenJDK Project. His past contributions to the platform include character-stream readers and writers, reference objects, shutdown hooks, the NIO high-performance I/O APIs, library generification, and service loaders. He was the lead engineer for the 1.2 and 5.0 releases and the specification lead for Java SE 6. He currently leads the engineering team for the OpenJDK Project and also serves as chair of the OpenJDK Governance Board. Mark holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Martin Brehovsky is a software engineer in Sun's Software Systems Group, where he works as an architect for JavaFX tools. Previously he worked as a project lead for NetBeans Mobility SVG tooling and for the Visual Mobile Designer. Prior to joining Sun, he was a freelance consultant and a lecturer for the University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic, where he focused on geographical information systems.
Martin Marinschek has been working with JSF right from the beginning - he has implemented the first productive application on MyFaces 0.3, and has since then consulted countless customers on how to use JSF to build high-performance and interactive applications. He is a MyFaces committer and PMC member, Facelets committer, member of the JSF, Web-Beans, JSF meta-data and JSF portlet-bridge expert groups, and has authored JSF@Work, a detailed introduction to JSF and Apache MyFaces.
Matt Chotin is a product manager on the Adobe Flex team who focuses on the Flex SDK. He has been a member of the Flex team since 2003. Prior to joining the "dark side" of Product Management Matt was a principal engineer contributing to the Flex 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 releases.
Miguel was born in the cosmopolitan city of Barcelona and he is now living and working in France. He is the BPM Manager working for Bull R&D and he is member of the OW2 Technical Council. Previously, in 2001, he joined INRIA, the French Research Institute in Computer Sciences, co-founding the Bonita Workflow System.
Mike Keith is an architect at Oracle and has close to 20 years of experience as a practitioner and mentor of distributed systems and persistence. He co-lead JSR-220, the JCP expert group that created EJB 3.0 and JPA 1.0 and co-authored the first book devoted to JPA called "Pro EJB 3: Java Persistence API". He sits on a number of technology expert groups and committees, including JSR-317 working on JPA 2.0, and the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group that is developing OSGi specifications for enterprise applications.
Since the beginning of J2EE Mike has worked on several enterprise development projects and started using Spring shortly after the first release. He has deep knowledge about making simple, transparent and powerful security solutions with tools like Spring Security (Acegi) and AspectJ. Besides this, he has implemented several Single Sign On solutions for customers using Kerberos and JA-SIG CAS. He is currently writing the first book about Spring Security (in German).
Nikolai is co-founder of the Munich based IT company Uxebu, specialized in front-end development, training and consulting. He graduated from the Hogeschool of Amsterdam and has been active in several open source projects since 1998. Nikolai is committer of the Dojo Toolkit, official Dojo community evangelist, co-founder of DojoCampus.org (the no. 1 Dojo related community site), and blogging for several front-end related blogs. When not being busy with anything around and about the web he dedicates his time to his family, composing and making music.
Senior Information Engineer @ EDS. Application Architect @ Vlaamse overheid, LNE/ACD. Java Experience since 1995. OO Experience since 1992. J2EE Experience since 1998. IT experience since 1988
Paul Fremantle spent 10 years working for IBM as a technical architect before leaving to set up the Open Source SOA startup - WSO2 - in 2005. Paul is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and VP of the Apache Synapse project. An expert on reliable messaging and lightweight SOA, Paul was recently named one of the top 25 CTOs by Infoworld. He also plays the tin whistle.
Peter Kriens is the OSGi Director of Technology and CEO of aQute. He has worked as consultant for a large number of international companies introducing OO techniques. In 94 he moved to Sweden to work for Ericsson, where he worked on a number of commercial and research projects. In 2001, he was hired part-time by the OSGi to act as its technical director, in which capacity he was the editor of the specifications. He currently also acts as the OSGi Evangelist.
Pete Muir is the project lead for Seam, and the Web Beans RI, and is a lead developer on RichFaces, a Rich Ajax JSF component set. Pete also represents JBoss on the JSF 2.0 Expert Group. Pete is currently employed by JBoss, a division of Red Hat, as a core developer working on JBoss open source projects. Before working for Red Hat, Pete used and contributed to Seam whilst working for a UK based staffing agency as IT Development Manager.
Phil Zoio is an independent developer, architect and consultant, and an active open source developer. In addition to creating Impala, he is the creator of Strecks, as set of Java 5 extensions for Struts. Phil has published articles in numerous leading journals and web sites, incuding Oracle Magazine, JavaWorld, The Server Side, etc., and regularly speaks at Java user groups and conferences.
Pierre Mage is a software engineer at SFEIR. He blogs about GWT on www.insideIT.fr. He developed several GWT applications in projects using Agile Methodologies during the past two years.
Richard is a longtime speaker and member of the Swing Team at Sun Microsystems. He has his roots as an application developer turned toolkit developer and is the lead of the component toolkit API for JavaFX. He is a frequent presenter and teams up frequently with other UI luminaries to produce demos for JavaOne and other conferences. As an application developer he had a specific penchant for databases and multi-tier design.
Rob's interests and knowledge focus on application development using open source products. He utilizes his Java experience as a hands-on architect on a successful large open source geospatial software project. When not online he prefers to spend his time kitesurfing as you will see during his talk
Roberto Chinnici is a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc. and the specification lead for the Java Platform Enterprise Edition 6. Previously he was the specification lead for JAX-WS 2.0 and JAX-RPC 1.1 and an active participant in W3C and WS-I working groups.
Romain has a long experience developing rich desktop user interfaces in Swing. He now works at Google on the Android mobile platform project, as a UI toolkit engineer. His other experiences include working in the Swing team at Sun Microsystems, publishing Filthy Rich Clients, a book on advanced Swing user interfaces, speaking at various conferences (JavaPolis, JavaOne, etc.), blogging extensively about Swing and Java 2D and working on various Open Source project (Android, SwingLabs, etc.)
Ron Tolido is a Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Capgemini Continental Europe / Asia Pacific. He is also a board member of the Open Group. Mr. Tolido has written several books and numerous articles and columns on agile systems development, software engineering, architecture, innovation and IT strategy. He is a frequently invited speaker and blogs on several sites, including Capgemini's CTO Blog and Carl Honore's SlowPlanet. Mr. Tolido is not afraid to confess that he was one of the first C++ programmers in Europe, although he has deleted this from his CV already many years ago.
Sam Brannen is a Senior Software Engineer at SpringSource where he serves as a member of the SpringSource dm Server development team, focusing primarily on OSGi-enabled web deployment models and Tomcat integration in the dm Server. Sam is also a member of the core development team for the Spring Framework and has been developing Java applications since 1996 and enterprise applications since 1999. During this time, Sam has enjoyed designing complex software architectures
Sebastien started the successful Belgian OWASP Chapter and performed several public presentations on web application and web services security. Sebastien specialises in (web) applicatoin security, combining his software development and information security experience. He is currently OWASP Foundation board member and responsible for the Telindus application security offering.
Simon Ritter specializes in looking at emerging technologies including grid computing, RFID, wireless sensor networks, robotics and wearable computing. Simon has been in the IT business since 1984 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Brunel University in the U.K. Originally working in the area of UNIX development for AT&T UNIX System Labs and then Novell, Simon joined Sun in 1996 and started working with Java technology; he has spent time doing both Java development and consultancy.
Simone Brunozzi is a technology enthusiast, involved in IT and computing since an early age. He joined Amazon.com in may 2008 in the role of Web Services Evangelist, traveling across Europe and vicinity to showcase the innovative new solutions by Amazon Web Services and help developers build businesses and applications. He is following the "Cloud Computing" paradigm shift since 2006, and believes that it is going to replace the traditional computing model in a few years.
Stefan Liesche is the Chief Architect for WebSphere Portal Accelerators and the WebSphere Portal Platform. Stefan is holding a M. Sc. in computer science from University of Hildesheim, Germany. In 1998 he joined IBM and gathered experiences in multiple technical roles since then. He worked as Architect for IBM Services in enterprise customer projects, at locations in Germany, where he constructed mission critical server applications. Stefan has been working with Portal Technologies for years, within services projects, as well as within IBM's Software Group product development organization. In 2007, Stefan jointly provided a lecture course on Portal technologies at the University of Jena, Germany. Stefan is an appointed Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) of IBM and The Open Group Master Certified IT Architect working in the IBM Deutschland Research and Development Laboratory, Böblingen, Germany.
Stefan Tilkov is co-founder and principal consultant at innoQ, a technology consulting company with offices in Germany and Switzerland. He has been involved in the design of large-scale, distributed systems for more than a decade, using a variety of technologies and tools ranging from C++ and CORBA over J2EE/Java EE and Web Services to REST and Ruby on Rails. Stefan is lead SOA editor of InfoQ, author of numerous articles and a frequent speaker at conferences around the world.
Stephan Janssen is a serial entrepreneur that has founded several successful organizations such as the Belgian Java User Group (BeJUG) in 1996, JCS Int. in 1998, JavaPolis in 2002 and now Parleys.com in 2006. He has been using Java since its early releases in 1995 with experience of developing and implementing real world Java solutions in the finance and manufacturing industries. Today Stephan is the CTO of the Java Competence Center at RealDolmen. He was selected by BEA Systems as the first European (independent) BEA Technical Director. He has also been recognized by the Server Side as one of the 54 Who is Who in Enterprise Java 2004. Sun has recognized in 2005 his efforts for the Java Community and has engaged him in the Java Champion project. He has spoken at numerous Java and JUG conferences around the world.
Steven Noels is co-founder and CEO of Outerthought, makers of the open source Daisy CMS and the Kauri web framework. Previously deeply infected by the angle brackets bug, he ventured from ancient SGML rites to hipsters' XML and then from internet applications onwards. Outerthought is a Belgian software company on the crossroads and the forefront of open source and Java-based internet development. Steven also is a board member of Gent BC, the platform for the Ghent innovation and technology community and has been sighted with his beloved photo camera on many occasions.
Ted Neward is an independent consultant specializing in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 20-person shops. He speaks on the conference circuit, including the No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium tour, discussing Java, .NET and XML service technologies, focusing on Java-.NET interoperability. He has written several widely-recognized books in both the Java and .NET space, including the recently-released "Effective Enterprise Java". He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, two sons, four video-game consoles, thousands of books (on programming and otherwise), and eight PCs.
Thomas Enebo is project manager and a developer of the open source project JRuby. He is a developer at the University of Minnesota and a consultant with Aandtech Inc. Tom has been using Java in some fashion since its first public beta release. He became interested in Ruby after seeing an elegant re-implementation of some Perl code. Tom joined the JRuby project some time in late 2002.
Tobias Ivarsson is a software developer at Swedish startup Neo Technology. He has been a Jython committer since summer 2007 with development focus on the compiler. Neo Technology was co-founded by Emil Eifrém, a fellow student of Tobias at the M.Sc. of Computer Science and Engineering program at Linköping University. Emil consulted Tobias about the possibility for using the Java based Neo graph database from Python which is how Tobias involvement with both Neo4j and Jython started. It continued with him taking a part time job at Neo Technology and signing up for a Google Summer of Code project on the Jython compiler. Now Tobias is finishing up his Masters Thesis on improving the match between dynamic languages and the JVM.
Virgil Dodson is a Developer Evangelist at Actuate Corporation (sponsor of the open source BIRT project) and blogger/forum moderator at the BIRT Exchange community site. Virgil has over 13 years experience as a software developer. For the past 6 years he has helped Java developers get started with Actuate's embedded reporting products. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from DeVry.
Volker Bergmann is a passionate enterprise software architect, dedicated to designing, implementing and optimizing J2EE systems with challenging design and performance requirements. In eleven years of Java project practice he collected insights, antipatterns, best practices and ideas which he continuously converts into sessions, trainings and tools which are dedicated to improving the way we create and test software.
Yves Hanoulle started working in IT in 1994. He started as software support which he sees as the best way to customer driven programming. After a few years working as a programmer, he started to follow a 1 year course on leading groups. IT is more then anything else working with people. A skills that can never be learned enough. That is also the reason why one of two books Yves reads every month, has nothing to do with IT, but with personal skills. Yves is a Certified Core Coach by McCarthy Technologies. Yves spends 20% of his revenu on training and books. He started a 4 year gestalt training to optimize his coaching skills. Currently Yves works as an agile project coach /Project manager optimizing teams. Yves started PairCoaching.net because he believes that 2 trainers always outperform 1 trainer, no matter how good they are. His Leadership workshops show this also works with people that never met eachother.